The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-16
THREE WESTERN MEN.
GOVERNOR OGLEseY, JULIUS S. GRIN
NELL AND NATHANIEL S. JONES.
The first Two Have Lately Been Is
Pecially Prominent Because OF the
Anarchist Case-The Last Named Has
Become Rich Man
Special Correspondence J

Special Correspondence
CHICAGO. Nov. IL There are some men IN
the west want 20 tell YOU about Gne Of
F them is a person very well known in Illinois
whore the familiar patronymic of "nncle" is
quite universally applied % him. and whose
fame has in O. measure spread throughout the
country Governor cglesby. Ola him as count
+ of last resort for the anarchist the ewes of
the world were for some days turned 10
-co what the sole arhitor OF seven lives would
DO in one of the most perpleyng cases ever
/ known in lhs country. Governor OglesbF-
"Uncle Dick everybody calls him ont this
way-has n kindly face, an eye which
/ wrinkles with good humor "a tongue which
/ delight. % say pleasant and uow. how
/ to utter foIioitous Things Ones first
inprc.-.on of the governor Is that he could
,,5t say harsh or cruel thing. even f0 DIS
enemy, to save his own no.a, yet
/ those who know him better N1w that
on occasion hecan Doe as stern and ending
as Doc p'ease-, with alI due grace anal NATURAL
ness le likes To- Tell stories uI nothing
ple1~s him better than 20 so Hp tin mid
night m the office OF tho Republican head-
quarter, in Cmcago-the Grand Pacific hotel
exchanging views and swapping yarns
with number of his fiera. Tie can play
o.. i'u, too, with go deal OF dash and
SPIRIT and .t was iu iI, hotel some years
year ago that SAW "lucle Dick one cgcu-
ing take from tle bands OF "a c0lo.ll NIUE
Stefan blac.. violin and upon it play. 90 the
liyc'.o- possible tme, an old country break
down tune The politicians and travelling
men who were present formed impromltu
c0uli0us and there wa. plenty of iuu.
II was in Kentucky that Og.ahy learned
% piav "the fiddle" as Dee las always called
it and as bee calls it to This day. Tie there
learned several other things. some ol tHem of
great deal more Importance Among
CON was to bate slavery He was s.avo
himsell-t0 poverty and TOLL Io @y that
the parents of @ great American were poor
and honest b. Oh tell "a fact that Ws easily
guessed but O-.ebys parents were very,
very poor and moreover. when the cholera
swept through the Ohio valley m l~i. PEE
cuhnrN fatal throughout that whole region,
the father aud mother died within three
DAYS, leaving bald dozen orphans without
much n the vas OBI property to start them
of boo iiie Richard Ha, years odd Them and
of his father consisting principally of am
old colored man called "lncle Tim. who
had been kept moro as @ member of the
family than as -iayc tDe boy shed
many and hot tears. and u his
brave juvenile way declared tlat lucle
Tim should one day have hs ireedlm. Tie
kept his promise, too. Some dozen years later,
aud the old negro died free Au uncle took
tn, hoy Richard and did the best he could by
him. but that was not much, and young
O-l~bv received hlt scaut common school
education.
O.ehy springs from that stock which
gave SOD much good blood o. several of the
western states. particularly t0 southern lIli-
no.- There We're then m Kentucky two
cia.-,--tHc rch planters onl the poor
whites aud Wide Was the gulf between them.
THE poor men continued Tor Wh.lo the uu-
equal struggle arainst wealth backed up
with slavery. and then looked about faemlor
anew hed Illinois presented mans allure
mut,. and hithm great number ome
Thus kentucky gave 90 linno, some ol Der
be,t bIool and most liu-.uUu. NAMES Ilu.
came Lincoln. Yates uI O-.eUE m 1896
Young Richard. uncle ,atr.el at Decatur,
aud the boY was sent t0 learn the carpenters
frnde At go he began the study of law
When the Mexican war broke ont Doe went Oh
the front iu the regiment commanded ly
Col Baker. who was atferwud killed at
Balls RuG The gold fsser oi 43 sent him
Co t4e valley of the Sacramento. uharo be
toil.d fort years iu -.aIclo f riches. which
came not Returning Oh illinois Doe began
fha uractico of law and entered lniIIi.. Tho